Born in Ijamsville in the little tenant house along the railroad track (the B&O tracks divided the Hyatt farm) on 5 Feb 1911, the first child of Jim and Nannie Michael Hyatt. Educated at the little one-room school in Ijamsville, but because of occasional epileptic seizures (which he outgrew as a teenager) he was asked to leave school after 5th grade. He farmed, worked as a carpenter, a night watchman at a factory, and a school janitor. He was kind, compassionate, gentle, a friend to all he met. He rode a horse five miles in a blizzard to give mom her engagement ring--on Valentine's Day, 1940. How's that for romantic?? He married Mary Louise Martin on 20 March 1940. He liked baseball and could bat a ball a mile! He'd work all day at his construction job, come home and work in the garden until supper. His favorite drink was strawberry Nehi soda and he loved fresh peach pie with vanilla ice cream. He sang in the choir at Grace Trinty UCC, Pearl, Frederick Co., MD. When he was working in the yard he was either singing, humming or whistling. He never lost his temper, raised his voice and no cuss word ever came from his mouth. He was never too busy to help out. He died 7 Sep 1962 from complications (shock) from a broken hip; he died in Baltimore at the hospital. He was a kind, gentle father.
Born in Ijamsville in the little tenant house along the railroad track (the B&O tracks divided the Hyatt farm) on 5 Feb 1911, the first child of Jim and Nannie Michael Hyatt. Educated at the little one-room school in Ijamsville, but because of occasional epileptic seizures (which he outgrew as a teenager) he was asked to leave school after 5th grade. He farmed, worked as a carpenter, a night watchman at a factory, and a school janitor. He was kind, compassionate, gentle, a friend to all he met. He rode a horse five miles in a blizzard to give mom her engagement ring--on Valentine's Day, 1940. How's that for romantic?? He married Mary Louise Martin on 20 March 1940. He liked baseball and could bat a ball a mile! He'd work all day at his construction job, come home and work in the garden until supper. His favorite drink was strawberry Nehi soda and he loved fresh peach pie with vanilla ice cream. He sang in the choir at Grace Trinty UCC, Pearl, Frederick Co., MD. When he was working in the yard he was either singing, humming or whistling. He never lost his temper, raised his voice and no cuss word ever came from his mouth. He was never too busy to help out. He died 7 Sep 1962 from complications (shock) from a broken hip; he died in Baltimore at the hospital. He was a kind, gentle father.
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My beloved father; I never heard him lose his temper, always singing, humming or whistling. The best dad a girl could have!
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